Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
30may2006
Firefox for Emacs users, Bill Clementson on Conkeror (an evil beast :P).
(Not) Managing Software Developers, by Steve Yegge. Must read, as usual.
Cat is a stack based functional language by Christopher Diggins, inspired by the Joy programming language Like Joy, Cat is a cross between Forth and the FP language. Nice if you are into concatenative languages.
With a long-distance look
Her eyes was on fire
But the song it was long
And there was more to be sung.
— Bob Dylan, Eternal Circle
Fantazy Land, “The Worst Theme Park in the World?” Amusing.
It Will Get Better (A Series of Agile Development , System Administration, And Company Culture Change On A Small Team) Article 1 of N, by Zach Dennis. The start of an interesting series of posts.
Ice Lens Photography, wonderful shots by Matthew Wheeler.
rcov 0.5.0: cross-referenced reports (code coverage and callsite info), RubyGems, Rant support, improved heuristics, great work, Mauricio.
Own your data: ad-hoc representations, by Ned Batchelder. “Rather than adopting (or worse, adapting) a standard to fit your purposes, you should create your own data representation. It will give you the best fit for the problem at hand.” Often, but not always, a good idea.
GHC-MacIntel port, seems to be freaking fast.
Rooms of algebraic theology, whoo. “The supercomputers I’m showing here are powerful almost beyond human understanding”.
What’s Missing in Web 2.0?, Gabor Cselle wonders. In the end, offline access and encrypted, searchable storage.
Standing next to me in this lonely crowd,
Is a man who swears he’s not to blame.
All day long I hear him shout so loud,
Crying out that he was framed.
— Bob Dylan, I Shall Be Released
“Reclaim the Hardware Design Space!” is a breakout group on the 3rd European Lisp Workshop about creating hardware that is suited to dynamic programming languages in general, and LISP in particular. Just cool.
EasyChem is a program designed to draw chemical molecules, written under Linux and using Gtk+ 2. (Note that double-bounds are not WYSIWYG, they will be outputted nicely.)
Embeddable RDF, how a subset of RDF can be embedded into XHTML or HTML by using common idioms and attributes. Definitely a hack, but not too bad.
Necrocard, do you support sexual liberation too? PNSFW.